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I'm Jim Hayes. I'm a techie
entrepreneur who, with my wife and business partner,
Karen, started one of the world's first fiber optic test
equipment companies, Fotec, in 1981. Fotec was acquired by
Fluke Networks. I had also been involved in training
cabling and fiber optic technicians since 1982 through a
Fotec organization we called Fiber U. The Fotec and Fiber
U websites and all the training materials we created were
probably the most popular in communications cabling. In
1995, the instructors at Fiber U decided the industry
needed a professional society so we founded The
Fiber Optic Association. Today I'm the President of The
Fiber Optic Association and Karen and I run The FOA
and VDV Works, a
consulting company. We've revived Lennie
Lightwave's Guide To Fiber Optics and Uncle
Ted's Guide To VDV Cabling on the web for
everyone who missed these highly-praised introductions to
fiber optics and structured cabling. Fiber
U has been adopted by FOA for their free online
web-based training. I
edit and/or write the FOA
textbooks on fiber optics and cabling (as well as a
couple of my own), write articles and columns on cabling
for many publications and serve as a contributing editor
to Electrical Contractor and IMSA Journal
magazines. I'm also a frequent speaker at seminars and
conventions to promote the FOA. I even still venture out
to do training, especially training instructors,
sometimes. ![]() This website includes my personal pages and links to those of my family. |
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